I forgot about the Baylor game.
Wow. At this point, I'm amazed that we beat Baylor at home (or anywhere), even an unranked Baylor team.
This is why Prohm must go........
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I forgot about the Baylor game.
Wow. At this point, I'm amazed that we beat Baylor at home (or anywhere), even an unranked Baylor team.
Without those injuries, I think 2017-2018 was definitely an NIT team and a scary one with the way Wiggs was improving. NWB was underrated his whole time at ISU. Solid PG that could defend 1-4.
That seems a bit extreme, I think you are focused on the effort and "want to". I think coaches can have a bigger impact helping guide that effort into the right areas to work on, specific drills, etc.
Or maybe what I am saying is a good coach can be a multiplier of the results of the players effort. E.g. a good coach can turn X amount of player effort into 2X of improvement, where a lousy coach its just X gives you X. And by coach, I mean coaching staff - head coach, assistants, managers, etc.
Wigginton went the **** off.
5/10 from three, 9/12 from the line, 3 A and only 1 TO! Good Wiggi!
Like I said -- those five starters could be very good.
But when your bench immediately goes to a hobbled Hans Brase and the legendary Jeff Beverly, and those guys at the top are forced to play 35+ minutes, they wore down physically during games and eventually broke down during the season.
How nice would it be to have Jeff Beverly and his mid-range jumper this season?
I'm totally serious about that; I know some posters on here (and I'm not suggesting you are one) love to rip on him for whatever mean-spirited reasons they have, but I really thought he was a nice complimentary player for that one season.
He became emblematic of the problems that season even if they were fall from his fault alone. He could be okay in 10-15 minute bursts.
He was just not a Big 12 starter or a long-range shooter, which Prohm tried to make him one and style him as one, with predictably deplorable results.
We could use *anybody* who makes shots this year, so if we had Jeff and he was making 16' shots instead of Jackson bricking threes, I am all for it.
He was just the new guy and did hilarious stuff like this --
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...so it makes a funny meme.
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That man did win us the UNI game that year.He became emblematic of the problems that season even if they were fall from his fault alone. He could be okay in 10-15 minute bursts.
He was just not a Big 12 starter or a long-range shooter, which Prohm tried to make him one and style him as one, with predictably deplorable results.
We could use *anybody* who makes shots this year, so if we had Jeff and he was making 16' shots instead of Jackson bricking threes, I am all for it.
He was just the new guy and did hilarious stuff like this --
-- so it makes a funny meme.
He missed Solo boxing out so he could go up and get it.
He also had to play incredibly timidly to avoid fouls as the only big man.
I think the Babb/Jackson/Wigginton back court combo was much better than our current back court, as a whole. Offensive spacing existed that season, which made Solo/Lard more effective (also what made Jacobson more effective last year).
Having a knock down shooter on this team and a productive small ball 4 / wing player would help this team immensely. I'm not saying we'd be great, but we'd be above average to good.
The hope is Foster and Blackwell are "big" and "small" versions of what you describe.
Beverley hit a 3 in probably the most critical part of the game. IIRC, UNI made a little run and Jeff hit a 3 that pushed our lead from either 2 to 5 or 3-6. Either way it was a ginormous shot for him.By fouling out in 21 minutes?
He was 2/2 from three, though.
Agreed. Adding a Donovan Jackson type player to this team would be a tremendous help. You'd essentially have 3 starting PG's (Haliburton/Bolton/D. Jackson) with a knockdown shooter in Jackson. Doesn't eliminate all deficiencies, but at least changes the trajectory of the season.
And Dubar looks like he might be a guy that could provide immediate help at that position as well.
Steve keeps going to this reasoning and it's really not helping his cause:
Randy Peterson
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Steve Prohm: If we just made half of the easy baskets we get, and cut out half the easy baskets or a third of the easy baskets we give up, we’d be playing a lot better.
Randy Peterson
@RandyPete
Steve Prohm: If we just made half of the easy baskets we get, and cut out half the easy baskets or a third of the easy baskets we give up, we’d be playing a lot better.
